Kylie Jenner stricken with postpartum depression that lasted a year after first teenage pregnancy
Opening up about her tough early motherhood, Kylie Jenner has said she was stricken with postpartum depression that lasted a year after her first teenage pregnancy.
Kylie Jenner was stricken with postpartum depression that lasted a year after her first teenage pregnancy.
The reality TV star, 27, had daughter Stormi, six, when she was only 19, followed by son Aire, two – both of whom she shares with her 33-year-old rapper ex Travis Scott – and has now opened up about the devastating impact of early motherhood.
Make-up mogul Kylie, now dating actor Timothée Chalamet, 28, told British Vogue: “Stormi wasn’t planned. It happened, but obviously I knew that I wanted to have her. I wanted children so bad.
“I was 19 when I got pregnant, 20 when I had her... it was wild... looking back at it, I give myself more empathy and grace. But when I was a teenager, even my family were like: ‘You aren’t that young.’
“I think maybe I carried myself (in a certain way), or I’d already been working for 10 years.
“It didn’t hit me (right away.) But it was a huge life change.
“(Postpartum depression from Stormi) lasted a year.”
Kylie added she suffered the same form of the blues after Aire’s birth, saying it lasted “around the same length of time”.
She went on about how she is optimistic about her future: “I’m going to be 27, and I’m finally feeling like myself again, and (in hindsight) I think, being pregnant, I wore sweatpants every day, I didn’t have time to figure out even some of the little things in my life, and then postpartum lasted a year.
“Mentally, it’s really hard. Hormonally, it’s really hard. I didn’t know how to dress.”
Kylie added about the upside of being a mum: “No matter what I’m going through or what I look like or what the internet writes about me that day. I come home and my kids just love me unconditionally.
“They’re just obsessed with me and that’s taught me to walk through life a little easier.
“I’m like, ‘OK, well I have these little humans at home that need me and love me and think I’m the most perfect person in the world, so I don’t really need validation from outside sources’.”
